Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Industrial, and Labor Sntc,.

Industrial and Labor Notes.
The English are doing some superior
work in steel crank shaftiEy. One shaft
has just been turned out which weis.s
sixty -six tons. Steel bars are turned out
in English steel works which beara tensible
strain Of twenty eight to sixty-tive tons pr
square inch. They make forged STEEL
which stands a strain OF from twenty -ejght
to eighty-seven tons per square inch.
NATURAL gas has closed down all The
coal mines around Johnstown. Pa. and haa
caused q sudden collapse of values in such
coal properties, wEose owners have for
years been marking up the nominal values.
The Cambria Company has extensive coal
leases which are now comparatively value-
less.
The Chinese Government has ordered
from Birmingham (England) firm ninety
noiseless automatic presses, VII en- ave y
capacity of coming Z, zoo, 900 pieces per day
of ten hours. They are to be ready in one
year. The Royal Mint OF London has six
teen Of the same kind.
The. development Of rich coal-beds il
the far Northwest threatens to revolutionize
the mining industry. One vein six feet
thick has been found. There is q great
boom in mining operations, and milling
orders for quick delivery.
EVERY large manufacturing center in
France has O technical educational estab-
lishment. Five hundred scholarships have
been established at an annual Government
expense Of $150,OO0. Germany is far
ahead Of France in the matter Of technical
| education.
| The two great copper producing COM
| panies in the Northwest are greatly lncreas-
ing their capacity. The capital of the Ana
conda has been increased to SO, 100000.
and the Calumet and Hecla has increased
its output capacity thirty per cent.
SILVER and gold mining is attracting
more capital. The silver production has
increased in the ratio of $50 in 1880 to SOL
in 1886. Silver production has increased
throughout the world from ST., COO, coo IN
1872 to 1924, 100000 in 1886
THREE Ontario weavers have invented
process for weaving cloths OF mixed ma
terials SO that they shall be inseparably
woven, showing one surface of hemp or
jute, and the other of cotton or wool.
AT meeting Of the United Labor party
of Denver resolution was passed to buy
tents and camp out altogether on account
of the 20 per cent. advance in rents without
a corresponding advance in wages.
SrEELMAKERs are busy in foreign coun-
tries and ironmakers are finding less and
less to do. The discharged workmen are
seeking for work, and see no remedy but
in otter and unfamiliar employment.
GREAT interest is shown by the wage
workers Of Indiana in the United Labor
party. Eighty counties in Ohio have been
organized, and Gen. Weaver is making
tour Of the State.
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steamboats, for Lake Chautauqua. They
are to have guaranteed speed Of twenty
two miles an hour. The work will be done
at the Cleveland Rolling Mills.
A BUILDING and loan association cstab-
lished in Milwaukee, with a capital of S.
10000, to build power for mechanics and
laborer5. Capital is being attracted in that
direction.
The people of Buffalo expect soon to
have supply of gas for domestic pur-
poses.
The success of the Western building
and loan associations has led to much more
building of small houses than would have
been possible without that system of NUT
ual banking.
APARTY Of English capitalists have NADIA
extensive mineral investments near Cum
berlaud Gap, KY, with view to coal de-
velopment and the building of iron works.
ALL manufacturing firms and corpora
tons using scrip IN Pennsylvania must
hereafter file returns showing the amount OF
scrip issued, and pay ~ per cent. tax
on it.
THE New England house, builders are
making no effort to advance wages. En-
ployers are putting up great many small
houses, which they will sell on easy terms.
The Western miners expect to re-estab-
lish satisfactory rates of wages, although
the temporary dizziness in the markets
makes employers less willing and anxious.
OUT of the IS, 1000 strikers during May
100000 were in the building trades, -, 900
coke makers, land $500 stove molders.
A GREAT many new enterprises will be
heard of during the summer if favorable
trade and industrial conditions shall con-
tinue.
Tool works and foundries and machine
shops are springing up rapidly in the
South, and Northern skilled labor is in de-
mand.
AS MANY new silk-manufacturing firms
are springing up in Paterson as are going
out of it.
SOUTHERN cotton mills are paying from
10 to 20 per cent. dividends.
The German bartenders talk Of forming
! o national union.